Paul Hollywood’s ultimate carrot cake

Name: Paul Hollywood’s ultimate carrot cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: 155ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing; 230g self-raising flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1½ tsp ground cinnamon; ½ tsp mixed spice; ½ tsp ground ginger; 230g light brown muscovado sugar; Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate; 100g pecans, halved; 260g carrots, coarsely grated; 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten; 50g butter, softened; 200g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia; 100g icing sugar, plus extra to dust; Finely grated zest of 1 orange; 2 oranges; 200ml water; 200g caster sugar

Instructions

Prep:20minCook:1h

Paul Hollywood’s carrot cake recipe uses pecan nuts for crunch and flavour, with a lovely warmth coming through in the cinnamon and ginger spices. It’s topped with cream cheese frosting, and decorated with a crown of orange zest. If you have carrot cake marked down as an ‘everyday’ kind of cake, then take a look at this other stunning recipe: a layered carrot cake. Four layers are sandwiched between a chocolate and vanilla marbled cheesecake filling, plus thick layers of cream cheese icing.

Updated at: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:14:06 GMT